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add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks VERDI Rigoletto (highlights from the opera) Jozef Abel, tenor / Alida Ferrarini, soprano / Alzbeta Michalkova, contralto / Slovak Philharmonic Chorus / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Alexande [ Naxos Opera Classics / CD - released 8/Mar/2004 ] "Eduard Turmagian gives...a lucidly thought-through performance, dramatically sensitive...This recording of Rigoletto is astonishing value" - Gramophone
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks VERDI Rigoletto (Complete opera) Jozef Abel (tenor) Alida Ferrarini (soprano) Alzbeta Michalkova (contralto) / Slovak Philharmonic Chorus / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Rahbari [ Naxos Opera Classics / CD - released 8/Mar/2004 ] "Eduard Turmagian gives...a lucidly thought-through performance, dramatically sensitive...This recording of Rigoletto is astonishing value" - Gramophone
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks VARIOUS COMPOSERS Arias and Duets (rec 1949) Jussi Bjorling (tenor) Anna-Lisa Bjorling (soprano) / San Francisco Opera Orchestra [ Naxos Historical In Concert / CD - released 1/Jun/2007 ] 'This hour is yours' the announcer tells us at the opening of this CD, a pleasing hour indeed, in the company of the finest tenor of his day and his wife Anna-Lisa, a Conservatory-trained lyric soprano. The programme consists of favourite arias from...
add to cart $41.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks GOUNOD Faust (complete opera) Jussi Bjorling (tenor) Cesare Siepi (bass) Dorothy Kirsten (soprano) Frank Guarrera (baritone) Lawrence Davidson (baritone) Anne Bollinger (sop) [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / 3 CD - released 27/Jul/2005 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1851-1900) - "This 3 CD set contains some of the most glorious tenor singing ever recorded. Buy it!!!" - Göran Forsling, MusicWeb international, July 2005
add to cart $36.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks GIACOMO PUCCINI Puccini: Manon Lescaut (Great Opera Recordings) Jussi Bjorling (Tenor) Licia Albanese (Soprano ) / Rome Opera Chorus, Rome Opera Orchestra, Jonel Perlea (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 18/Apr/2006 ] "no one can afford to be without this version, for the overall excellence but especially for Jussi Björling's unsurpassable des Grieux, now that it is available at Naxos price" (MusicWeb March 2006)
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks GIUSEPPE VERDI Verdi: Rigoletto (complete opera recorded in 1955) [with other operatic excerpts featuring Robert Merrill] Jussi Bjorling (tenor) Roberta Peters (soprano) / Robert Merrill (baritone) / Rome Opera Chorus & Orchestra / Jonel Perlea [ Naxos Historical Opera / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] When this 1956 recording of Rigoletto was first released in Britain, The Gramophone reviewer commented: "under Perlea, the orchestral playing is firm and dramatic, well balanced with the voice.
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks GOUNOD / MASSENET / VERDI / BIZET / PUCCINI / PONCHIELLI / etc Jussi Bjorling: Collection Vol 4: Opera Arias and Duets (1945-1951) Jussi Bjorling (tenor) with Emil Markow (bass) & Robert Merrill (baritone) / RCA Victor Chorus [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 24/Oct/2004 ] "This is Bjorling in his prime, caught between 1945 and 1951, and for the first time on one CD there are both EMI and RCA recordings. Here is some of the finest singing ever captured on disc…the best thing you can do with a fiver this summer." --...
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks PUCCINI / VERDI / PONCHIELLI / MEYERBEER / GOUNOD / GIORDANO / etc Jussi: Bjorling Collection, Vol. 3: Opera Arias and Duets (1936-1944) Jussi Bjorling, tenor, with Studio orchestra, Nils Grevillius, conductor [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 1/Oct/2008 ] "He didn't have the enjoyable finesse of certain other masters of phrasing, but a noble sensuality that gave the Italian-French repertoire a "fashioned elegance". He originated from the Scandinavian tradition, which - a generation later - Nicolai...
add to cart $54.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks VERDI Aida (complete opera recorded in 1955) Plus highlights from Un Ballo in Maschera (rec 1955) Jussi Bjorling (Tenor) / Zinka Milanov (Soprano) / Fedora Barbieri (mezzo-soprano) / Rome Opera House Orchestra / Jonel Perlea (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Great Operas / 3 CD - released 16/Jul/2006 ] The Aida recording was transferred from the best portions of three American LP pressings, while the Ballo highlights came from an Italian LP.
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks KALMAN Csardasfurstin (Die) (The Gypsy Princess) (Complete operetta) Karl-Michael Ebner, tenor / Mojca Erdmann, soprano / Heinz Holecek, bass / Yvonne Kalman / Marko Kathol, tenor / Yvonne Kenny, soprano / Hellmuth Klum [ Naxos Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2005 ] "A sweet 'n' spicy confection that shows operetta at it's delicious best" - Editor's Choice gramophone Magazine March 2005
add to cart $58.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks KALMAN Csardasfurstin (Die) (The Gypsy Princess) (Complete operetta) Karl-Michael Ebner (tenor) Mojca Erdmann (soprano) Heinz Holecek (bass) Yvonne Kenny (soprano) / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Richard Bonynge [ Naxos Opera Classics SACD / 2 SACD - released 1/Mar/2005 ] Kálmán's great contribution to the musical language of Viennese operetta was to bring to it the brilliant colours, the heady rhythms and the dynamic energy of his native Hungary - not just as an imitator, like so many other composers, but as one who...
add to cart $32.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks ALBAN BERG Berg: Wozzeck (Complete Opera recorded in 2013) Katarina Dalayman / Carl Johan Falkman / Ulrik Qvale / Sten Wahlund / Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera Stockholm / Leif Segerstam [ Naxos Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Mar/2017 ] Based on real events and playwright Georg Bu¨chner's starkly vehement text, Alban Berg's tragic opera Wozzeck is an epoch-making work, in stark contrast to the previous high romantic ideals of the genre, that led Schoenberg to exclaim "now that's...
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks ALBAN BERG Berg: Wozzeck (Complete Opera) Katarina Dalayman / Carl Johan Falkman / Ulrik Qvale / Sten Wahlund / Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera Stockholm / Leif Segerstam [ Naxos Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 1/May/2002 ] Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (March 2002)
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks LOUIS KARCHIN Romulus (complete opera) Katrina Thurman / Steven Ebel / Thomas Meglioranza / Wilbur Pauley / The Washington Square Ensemble / Louis Karchin [ Naxos American Opera Classics / CD - released 22/Sep/2011 ] The Washington Square Ensemble, praised for its 'polished, lively performance' (The New York Times) is joined by a cast of first-class singers conducted by the composer.
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks ROBERT ALDRIDGE Elmer Gantry (complete opera) Keith Phares / Patricia Riseley / Vale Rideout / Florentine Opera Company / Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra / William Boggs [ Naxos American Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 26/Oct/2011 ]
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks HENRY PURCELL Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (complete opera recorded in 1952) Kirsten Flagstad / Elisabeth Schwarzkopf / Thomas Hemsley / Arda Mandikian / Mermaid Singers / Mermaid Orchestra / Geraint Jones [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / CD - released 19/Sep/2007 ] When the recording first appeared in January 1953 The Gramophone commented: "At last we have a really satisfactory recording of Dido".
add to cart $49.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks WAGNER Siegfried (Complete opera) Met broadcast of 1937 Kirsten Flagstad / Lauritz Melchior [ Naxos Great Opera Recordings / 3 CD - released 3/Oct/2002 ] "Friedrich Schorr is a superb wanderer, Kerstin Thorborg a majestic Erda, and the radiance of Kirsten Falgstad's Brunnhilde has to be heard to be believed." - David Cairns, The Sunday Times 07 July 2002
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks BEETHOVEN Fidelio (complete opera recorded live in 1941) Kirsten Flagstad / Rene Maison / Julius Huehn / Alexander Kipnis / Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera / Bruno Walter [ Naxos Historical Immortal Performances / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ]
add to cart $55.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks WAGNER Gotterdammerung (complete opera recorded live in 1956) Kirsten Flagstad / Set Svanholm / Ingrid Bjoner / Olso Philharmonic, Norwegian State Radio Orchestra, Oivin FjeldstadErich Leins [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Performances / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/May/2012 ] Flagstad, the great Wagnerian, is in resplendent voice and Svanholm proves a worthy partner. This elusive set remains a milestone in Wagner performance.
add to cart $70.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks RICHARD WAGNER Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (complete opera recorded in 2022) Klaus Florian Vogt (tenor) Eva Heidi Stober (soprano) Johan Reuter (bass-baritone) / John Fiore (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / 2 Blu-ray - released 24/Nov/2023 ] Triumphantly premiered in 1868, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg evokes the singing guilds of mid-16th-century Nuremburg, a focal point of the Northern European Renaissance.